As an engineering student, I convert everything to Si before starting a problem. English units sick. I agree with everything in that graphic except for the date. Write it like you say it. I never say it's the 8th of December, it's December 8th, damn it

I know why US uses Fahrenheit scale. The point above zero at which water freezes (32 in Fahrenheit) yields less negative numbers when recording temps below freezing. I know this because I was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. At one point in the Army's history, the Signal Corps was responsible for all military meteorology reporting (learned this when I was a Private at Ft. Gordon, GA). BTW, Fahrenheit was German.

I know why US uses Fahrenheit scale. The point above zero at which water freezes (32 in Fahrenheit) yields less negative numbers when recording temps below freezing. I know this because I was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. At one point in the Army's history, the Signal Corps was responsible for all military meteorology reporting (learned this when I was a Private at Ft. Gordon, GA). BTW, Fahrenheit was German.

Edit: The military also uses dmy method to record the date.

How is that a reason to use it rather than absolute pure common sense outcome of using it? If you set the freezing point at above zero then obviously that system will have less negative numbers when recording freezing temperatures than a system where it must be negative to be freezing. Does the Signal Corps have some inherent fear of negative numbers? Legitimate question as that reason is just a description of a side effect of using Fahrenheit rather than Celsius rather than a reason to use it from how I read it.

How is that a reason to use it rather than absolute pure common sense outcome of using it? If you set the freezing point at above zero then obviously that system will have less negative numbers when recording freezing temperatures than a system where it must be negative to be freezing. Does the Signal Corps have some inherent fear of negative numbers? Legitimate question as that reason is just a description of a side effect of using Fahrenheit rather than Celsius rather than a reason to use it from how I read it.

I guess I'd rather be a ***** and have electricity, clean water, plenty of food, no diseases wiping out masses, no warlord using our children as soldiers, not working in a mine for pennies and a life expectancy over the age of 40 than not be a *****

Awww someone got his feewings hurt.
Well, I have power. But it is cool you can isolate an incident where there isn't.
Not a problem for most of this country.
Looks delicious.
Cancer and dying old or AIDS and dying by 20.....
18 to join the military. Not a child.
Pretty sure you don't make pennies.
Well according to the world bank, the life expectancy is 78.2 years in the United States.